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xAI / Grok Imagine

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview Tops Image-to-Video Arena and Goes Viral

xAI's preview video model claimed the No. 1 spot on the Image-to-Video Arena and drew attention for generating cinematic 40-second trailers from a single prompt.

MiniMax M3 Draws Agentic-Workflow Users With 1M-Token Context

MiniMax M3's 1M-token context is winning fans for agentic operation, with SEO users describing it as "a jetpack for SEO" and running it as an overnight worker via Hermes Agent. Praise centers on a free, capable AI worker and huge context, though users flagged slow Ollama backends, quantization performance concerns and time gaps versus Claude Opus 4.7 on some agentic browsing tasks.